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This guy turned his #Home into a #Crazy #PlasticBall #Prank: image via Joe Pardo @Dreamerspodcast, 23 January 2015
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Manila, Philippines. Children walking beside a river filled with rubbish in the capital: photo by Noel Celis/AFP via The Guardian, 27 January 2015
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Crowds outside the Apple store on Regent Street in central London on iPhone 6 release day: photo by Michael Tubi/Demotix/Corbis via The Guardian, 22 September 2014
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Andreas Gibson celebrates with employees outside the Fifth Avenue Apple store after being the first to exit with an iPhone 6 in hand on the first day of sales in Manhattan, New York: photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters via The Guardian, 22 September 2014
This guy turned his #Home into a #Crazy #PlasticBall #Prank: image via Joe Pardo @Dreamerspodcast, 23 January 2015
It's a beautiful brave new world over and over Apple sold 74.6 million copies of iPhone 6 in the last quarter and
If you've ever wondered where all that plastic crap goes when it's through using you
Never forget it's always continuing to do good stuff even though you may not know quite what that is exactly
Asylum, New York. Plastic play balls line the corridor of a psychiatric hospital: photo by Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix. from States of Decay (Carpet Bombing Culture, 2013): image via The Guardian, 17 July 2013
Superballs
You approach me carrying a book
The instructions you read carry me back beyond birth
To childhood and a courtyard bouncing a ball
The town is silent there is only one recreation
It’s throwing the ball against the wall and waiting
To see if it returns
One day
The wall reverses
The ball bounces the other way
Across this barrier into the future
Where it begets occupations names
This is known as the human heart a muscle
A woman adopts it it enters her chest
She falls from a train
The woman rebounds 500 miles back to her childhood
The heart falls from her clothing you retrieve it
Turn it over in your hand the trademark
Gives the name of a noted maker of balls
Elastic flexible yes but this is awful
You say
Her body is limp not plastic
Your heart is missing from it
You replace your heart in your breast and go on your way
You approach me carrying a book
The instructions you read carry me back beyond birth
To childhood and a courtyard bouncing a ball
The town is silent there is only one recreation
It’s throwing the ball against the wall and waiting
To see if it returns
One day
The wall reverses
The ball bounces the other way
Across this barrier into the future
Where it begets occupations names
This is known as the human heart a muscle
A woman adopts it it enters her chest
She falls from a train
The woman rebounds 500 miles back to her childhood
The heart falls from her clothing you retrieve it
Turn it over in your hand the trademark
Gives the name of a noted maker of balls
Elastic flexible yes but this is awful
You say
Her body is limp not plastic
Your heart is missing from it
You replace your heart in your breast and go on your way
TC: Superballs, from The Sand Burg (Ferry Press), 1966
Manila, Philippines. Children walking beside a river filled with rubbish in the capital: photo by Noel Celis/AFP via The Guardian, 27 January 2015
Crowds outside the Apple store on Regent Street in central London on iPhone 6 release day: photo by Michael Tubi/Demotix/Corbis via The Guardian, 22 September 2014
Andreas Gibson celebrates with employees outside the Fifth Avenue Apple store after being the first to exit with an iPhone 6 in hand on the first day of sales in Manhattan, New York: photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters via The Guardian, 22 September 2014